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8 THE ( [T-TTrrr^,g r^n.v AUGUST 10. 1923, Heading Lamp ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM The Old, Delightful, Fantastic I Wells Reviewed byt Ted Robinson Literary Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer J -MEN LIKE GODS" By H. G. Wells 1 Let us announce at the start that 'Mr H. G. Wells has for the moment gone back to his most delightful fantastic playground and has again written for us an impossible romance in the manner of 'The War of the Worlds" and "The Time Machine. • He has taken a vacation from preach- ing and from reforming society and has contented himself with prophecy- ing It is true that his purpose in "Men" Like Gods" is to show what the world might be like if its in- habitants would forget their selfish- ness and work together for common progress. It is true also that he can- not refrain from theorizing. But in this book he manages to make his story fascinating, to keep its action going, to paint pictures, to respect the artistic qualities of his own fairy tale. The storv is of a likeable and in- telligent Englishman who goes alone upon a motor trip to take a needed vacation from his business and his family. Driving along a familiar road he feels a slight shock and sud- denly he is no longer on that familiar road. Two or three other motoring parties that happened to be in the vicinity have experienced the same translation, for they are all in anr other world. It is impossible for us or for Mr. Wells either to explain "exactly how it has taken place; it suffices that inhabitants of a fourth dimensional planet which intersects our earth have been indulging in ex- periments which have had the ac- cidental effect of moving this party of travelers into a Utopian sphere. The Utopians are the men like gods. They are ten thousand years ahead of earth dwellers in civilization and , scientific progress. Thev build no cities, they wear no clothes, their surroundings are beautiful and ideal. It is of course prophecied that this is the wav our earth is going to be if w* act sanely. It is a typical Wells prediction. But the story continues --•^torgrowin interest. With the exeep- tton of the hero the earth dwellers - are npt able to, adjust themselves to . ideal conditions. They act outrageously and they get into serious trouble. In- cidentally they start an epidemic among the Utopians because these """".latter have so long ago abolished ; disease germs that thev have also lost their immunity to germs. This in- cident is of course reminiscent of ?The War of the Worlds." Our hero is willing to stay in Utooia for the rest of his life but this does not ac Of how he was sold and thrown in a hold Of a ship on the Spanish maini. How he rode the wave as a galley To^the clank of a heavy.chain; Then drew his blade as a renegade And scuttled the ships of Spain. If you're donning your specs to look for sex Then here's a book t& avoid. This author's pen has painted men Who, when aroused or annoyed, Went out and slew the whole day through With never a thought of Freud. Reuben Peterson, Jr. Here's Your Transportation (\F INTEREST ^^ only to oar ADVERTISERS Knowing something worth telling, a man hires a large hall, invites a large crowd, and then tells what he knows. An evangelist wants the whole world to hear the gospel, the good news. So he tells it everywhere. A merchant has something worth selling. Custom objects to .his hir- ing a hall. So, if he has wares that are especially worthy, he tells about them in a FULL-PAGE AD! Full Page Roll of Honor Hubbard Wood* Lumber and Coal Company ..............• •....... Winnetka Coal-Lumber Co....... The Orrtngton .................... Nelson Laundry ..........• • • •..... Wilmette Building Material Co.. Shoreen Motor Company ....... North Shore Bootery ........... R. H. Schel! A Co................ Wilmette Shoe Store ............ Skokie Motor Co....... ........ Edtnger & Sons................. Evanston Bid. Material Rockhold Bldg................. Lulias Bros...................... Frint George St Co.............. North Side Motors Co........... Illinois Apex Co............ ----- Welch's Cafeteria ............... % Does Advertising Pay? Ask the man who kept the Victrola dog in that attentive attitude. Ask the man who taught Ivory Soap to stay on the surface. Ask the man who discovered you can do it better with gas. Ask the man who found the voice with a smite. Ask the man who discovered it was best to Electrify. Ask the man who keeps cool in alphabetical underwear. Ask dad; he knows. Public Service Co. Sees Residential Growth Here A fifty percent increase in new connected power load in the territory of the Public Service company shows that great industrial strides, as well as the opening of many new resi- this Just a picture of one of the coaches that the New Trier Commercial association will hire from the North Shore Line to provide free transportation S Gross Point on New Trier Day, Aug. 23. The coaches will run from Wil- mette, Winnetka and.Glencoe. Kellogg Company Plant Visited by Local Party Recent visitors to the plant of The Kellogff company, at Battlecreek, Mich., were Carl Hall, David F. Hall, Mr-,. D. F. Halt, Mrs. E. G. Bentley and Miss Mary Ellen Bentley of Wil- mette. With a Kellogg guide, they inspected the entire plant and saw how Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Kellogg's Bran and Kellogg's Krumbles are transformed from raw grains into ready-to-eat cereal foods. The tour of the series of Kellogg buildines--actually one mammoth kitchen after another--won attention at every turn. They saw ton after ton of Corn Flakes being made and packed--just a fraction of the "Mil- lion packages a day" that are shipped from Maine to California to meet the demand. The corn crop of a 460-acre farm is utilized every day in the Kel- logg factory for this one product." • CANADA VIA FLIVVER Evert Nelson. 318 Park avenue, and Lester Dauber, 334 Central avenue, other- wise known as the "Ramblin Two," left yesterday for another jaunt of two thousand miles. Canada is their destina- tion, where they plan to camp for a period of six weeks. If their Ford holds out they will return by way of Niagara Falls. _On„the-way to-€anada they wilt go through Duluth CAR IN COLLISION A machineidriven by Mrs, jM. C, Petersen, 41^Cumnor road, Kenil- worth, collided with a car driven by .William Jackson, Evanston, at Emer- son street and Sherman avenue, Evanston, Sunday. .Both cars were damaged, but the occupants were un- hurt. .cord with the plans of the Utopians. I dences, have been made in rThey reverse their experiment and vicinity. send him back to England. He re-| The growth of a community is turns to his wife a wiser and even measured in part by the volume of healthier man. and we hav« had an- 'electricity it uses, officials of the pub- other bully fairv tale bv Wells at lie service company report. The load last. is fifty jiercent greater this year than for the same time last year. The company has installed more electric ranges than were put in ser A BIT DULL 'THE DEBUTANTE" . . - tl t 1o0n tU e ,. Bv Hush McCloskv vice durmg a" °i ^ <£? Amt*El ? "Intimate glimpses into the heart .|of a young girl," reads the pub- lisher's jacket. Quite so--but on the fwhole very dull glimpses. "I, Swann," philosophizes, diar-izes, mnn.h. ftt th„ VMr PMP(l(1 hv n-ariv psvcho-analvzes. through two hundred ; "lonths of *h,£/SLi«**:?Z ?*lli odd pages of platitudes about*'the 70 per cent the numbe^ ^-r-ed m the report. Compared with 1922, the 1923 score is practically even as to the five months' period considered.' __The jLpmpany states that the number of houses wired in the first five war. platitudes about peace, platitudes about government, and numerous c platitudinous love affairs with emo- tional peaks over which -©»#--cannot emote. The most that can be said is that it is perfectly respectable. i For the sake of the plot, "I, Peggy," marries in the last chapter. r';f^:--'lSu,.-..---"^'...... /. B, Bmtt: ^Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward. - £§HE SEA HAWr ■ (:;^m.,-^:-:f ■^..;v.;,p.--.vwBic\Rafaei Sabattni a hero grim and stout of limb-- Sir Oliver, six feet three; |How his good luck turned and his love I was spurned I Because of the deviltry |Of trusted Lai, half-brother, pal-- | That master of villainy! corresponding period of 1922. VETERANS OF 1898 MEET Veterans of the Spanish-American war will attend the community meeting in memory of President Warren G. Harding at the Methodist church this afternoon. The veterans will attend in connection with the American Legion. PClEAVES FOR VACATION Police officer Charles F. Martin of the Kenilworth police department left; for a vacation at Kentucky Points, Kentucky. During his two weeks' absence officer Martin will also visit his home state, Louisiana. ORDER BILL PAID A miscellaneous bill of $15,106.30 against the village of Wilmette wajs approved by the finance committee and ordered paid at the regular meet- ing of the village council Tuesday night. The bill included the payment of $10,250 for the new fire truck and the payment of the village hall regu- lar monthly payroll. READ THE WANT-ADS ASJf© PAINTPicl Mat/I'm.^ '#pii The Vail Any Automol depends largely on J pearence. 'mm A good paint job a| more value to the car the job costs. ROBERT w. Rear of Wilmette Suu Phone Wilmette t|| HOT WATER WHEN YOU WANT IT! convenience of having Jicrt ----- THnk~or ^ and water just exactly when you want it!--NO WAITING! Let us install in your home a and you'll have unexcelled HOT WATER SERVICE. 619 Main St KEMPE Fhoiie Wilmette 125 READ THE NEWS Established 19ft6 A. C. WOLF and METAL WORK TILE, SLATE and LEAKY ROOFS FURNACES and REPAIRS M'X'i>i$A EvMwton to Glencoe ['■■$.* Office 607 Main St Phone WO. 296 GUTTERS. SPOUTS, SKYLIGHTS 3^" .REPAIRING' mhi NEW Shop 1t24 Greenleaf A™. Phone WiL 158 C0SMAS BROTHERS Phone Wilmette 2694 1153 Wilmette Avenue \ite Village Theatre Phone i WUmetti 2693 1 Free Delivery as far north as Glencoe \ •>/ . ,. ^......................................................--^-^-r^----- Mushrooms, fancy, lb. . . . . # # ; # Sweet Corn, extra fancy, doz. -,'tT^", . I Celery, large bunches . . . . . . . # Apples, for cooking, peck . . . . ■ V . Special Today Fancy-Alberta Peaches in Flat Boxes Att^ther^ruits and vegetables sold at a margin of profit in this sale. Come and be convinced that we are handling the best merchandise in volumes. Quick tiirnovem are whal zmmmgs.